first half thread

[Deeringfish]

Hi everyone. Go Cats

 

[Figrating]

Tx for opening.

GO CATS!

 

[chariots]

Awful start

 

[Fanaticat98]

Wow.

 

[Titanium999]

Who fumbled?

 

[bjm989_rivals]

Cripe.

 

[Deeringfish]

Gonna be an ugly game due to weather.

Who fumbled?

Anderson

 

[bjm989_rivals]

Anderson.

 

[bjm989_rivals]

That penalty after the fumble really hurt ILL

 

[jensberg]

Dropping the interception was what really hurt

 

[Figrating]

Whew - rather be lucky than good.

 

[Figrating]

Let's see if Porter can hang on to the ball.

 

[Jonny2TheP]

I woke up early this morning, made enough beef vegetable soup to feed a small early 17th century American colony, went out shoveled some of the heaviest snow I’ve ever experienced and now I’m having a Deschutes Obsidian Stout for breakfast while I watch the battle for the hat! Let’s go!

 

[Deeringfish]

That penalty after the fumble really hurt ILL

No kidding. That was an unusual path from starting at the two yard line.

 

[Fanaticat98]

I can’t believe we dodged that bullet. Bad coaching decision to go for a FG.
Drake should not see the ball today. He’s had too many fumbles and the conditions are not at all suited to his style of running anyway. That was a bad decision to give him the ball for a power run on our own goal line.

 

[Deeringfish]

I woke up early this morning, made enough beef vegetable soup to feed a small early 17th century American colony, went out shoveled some of the heaviest snow I’ve ever experienced and now I’m having a Deschutes Obsidian Stout for breakfast while I watch the battle for the hat! Let’s go!

Conversely I shoveled 3 inches of the lightest snow I have ever shoveled.

 

[Deeringfish]

Has the D scored this year?

 

[Deeringfish]

Illini having their way up the middle

 

[jensberg]

Our D is getting run over badly by Illinois Brown gets 8 yd every time he touches the Baul

 

[Jonny2TheP]

Illini having their way up the middle

We’re missing Saunders and Kent so far

 

[Deeringfish]

Come on Doc time to make some adjustments

 

[TheC]

Terrible tackling

 

[bjm989_rivals]

This Cats run D is frustrating to watch right now!

 

[Figrating]

Where is the D today????

 

[BFDCat]

This is making me sick.

 

[rogerkim]

Not liking these missed tackles.

 

[jensberg]

Dominated at the line of scrimmage again

 

[Fanaticat98]

If we don’t make major adjustments soon this game will not go well. I don’t see us scoring a lot of points so we really can’t afford to give up many at all. Especially can’t be giving up 6-8 yards per carry.

 

[GECat2]

WTF?????

 

[NU Houston]

Run defense is terrible so far. Illinois isn't throwing the ball at all. This game is ugly.

 

[Alvious]

Let's just say there's room for improvement.

 

[SLUCATS210]

Man this is frustrating, wake up boys!!!

 

[Fanaticat98]

One problem could be that our D success has relied on INTs. They are not going to throw much today so we may have trouble with turnover ratio.
Bottom line though, if we can’t stop their running game and if we can’t score on their D which is apparently missing 21 scholarship players, any talk about rankings and probability of beating OSU is pretty much moot.

 

[jensberg]

too much talk this week about how to beat Ohio state when beating Illinois was always going to be difficult In this weather

 

[Fanaticat98]

Come on guys, let’s get something going.

 

[charcat]

Game is worse than the score. Not encouraging

 

[bjm989_rivals]

There you go Cam!

 

[SLUCATS210]

I think we found our running back!

 

[BFDCat]

Much better, let's punch this in.

 

[GECat2]

Soggy pants are not good.